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Technology that connects us while we're apart helps keep us safe and productive. Over the past few months, weve seen the power of video meetings bring us togetherwhether were working with teammates, talking to healthcare professionals, sharing with loved ones, or learning from home.

Today, were making Google Meet, our premium video conferencing product, free for everyone, with availability rolling out over the coming weeks. Weve invested years in making Meet a secure and reliable video conferencing solution thats trusted by schools, governments and enterprises around the world, and in recent months weve accelerated the release of top-requested features to make it even more helpful. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to our business and education users, such as simple scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including an expanded tiled view.

Its important that everyone who uses Meet has a secure and reliable experience from the start, so beginning next week, well be gradually expanding its availability to more and more people over the following weeks. This means you might not be able to create meetings at meet.google.com right away, but you can sign up to be notified when its available.

Video meetings built on a secure foundation

Meet is designed, built and operated to be secure at scale. Since January, weve seen Meets peak daily usage grow by 30x. As of this month, Meet is hosting 3 billion minutes of video meetings and adding roughly 3 million new users every day. And as of last week, Meets daily meeting participants surpassed 100 million. With this growth comes great responsibility. Privacy and security are paramount, no matter if its a doctor sharing confidential health information with a patient, a financial advisor hosting a client meeting, or people virtually connecting with each other for graduations, holidays and happy hours.

Our approach to security is simple: make products safe by default. We designed Meet to operate on a secure foundation, providing the protections needed to keep our users safe, their data secure, and their information private. Here are just a few of our default-on safety measures:

• We provide a strong set of host controls such as the ability to admit or deny entry to a meeting, and mute or remove participants, if needed.

• We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

• Meet meeting codes are complex by default and therefore resilient to brute-force guessing.

• Meet video meetings are encrypted in transit, and all recordings stored in Google Drive are encrypted in transit and at rest.

• We dont require plugins to use Meet on the web. It works entirely in Chrome and other modern browsers, so its less vulnerable to security threats.

• On mobile, we have dedicated Google Meet apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

• Meet users can enroll their account in Googles Advanced Protection Programour strongest protections available against phishing and account hijacking.

• Google Cloud undergoes regular rigorous security and privacy audits for all its services. Our global compliance certifications can help support regulatory requirements such as GDPR and HIPAA, as well as COPPA and FERPA for education.

• Your Meet data is not used for advertising, and we don't sell your data to third parties.

We operate a highly secure and resilient private network that encircles the globe and connects our data centers to each otherensuring that your data stays safe. Trust is built on transparency and we publish the locations of all our data centers. You can learn more about how Meet keeps your video meetings safe in this post.